Sq. Enix is lending out the solid of Nier: Automata for one more crossover. This time, three members of the acclaimed RPG’s solid are coming to uneven multiplayer survival horror recreation Dead by Daylight. If that sounds thrilling, then excellent news, the collaboration is on the market as of at present, Oct. 6.
Lifeless by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive introduced the sport’s newest crossover in a reveal trailer posted to social media. On the partnership, inventive director Dave Richard had this to say:
Past the superb characters and unimaginable visuals, there is a particular connection between the themes of our two universes, each coping with cycles of violence and struggling. Bringing 2B, A2, and Emil into The Fog gave us an opportunity to assist have fun what makes Nier: Automata so particular to us.”
In contrast to earlier collaborations, the characters will probably be reskins of current characters reasonably than fully new additions. On the Survivors’ facet, Feng Min is getting a 2B pores and skin and Yui Kimura is getting an A2 pores and skin. Each will probably be Legendary Outfits that include distinctive music, voice strains, HUD icons, menu idle animations, and extra. As for the Killer facet, The Legion is getting a Very Uncommon Outfit impressed by Emil. This will even type of make it really feel like Nier creator Yoko Taro is personally searching you down, in order that’s enjoyable. The gathering additionally contains an look by Pod 042 and Legendary portraits of 2B and A2.
Is Sq. Enix engaged on a Nier: Automata sequel?
It has been nearly a decade since Sq. Enix launched Nier: Automata to widespread important acclaim, however there is no such thing as a information on a follow-up. Moderately than a real sequel, Sq. Enix has as a substitute targeted on crossovers with numerous titles. Taro beforehand joked in an interview that these crossovers proceed to occur as a result of he’s a “slave to capitalism, so I’ll do something so long as I’m paid and can do nothing if there is not any cash in it.”
Technically, Taro did make NieR 3 within the type of the cellular gacha recreation Nier: Reincarnation. Die-hard followers (of which I’m one) insist that Reincarnation was an necessary continuation of the collection’ overarching story that individuals wrote off, nevertheless it was shut down in 2024. In 2025, Taro revealed that he is tried to work on a number of new tasks, however all of them obtained canceled, although it wasn’t made clear if one such venture was a Nier recreation. Whereas it would not look like a precedence for Sq. Enix, followers nonetheless maintain out hope that the collection will return.